Pomarea nigra

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Critically Endangered

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Ecology: It is only found between 80 m and 400 m in altitude , and the tree "mara" Neonauclea forsteri is a common feature of the four valleys where it survives6. It is highly territorial , foraging both in the canopy and the undergrowth for insects4.

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List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.6     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Pomarea nigra (Sparrman, 1786)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Pomarea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 11 species and subspecies in this genus:

P. dimidiata (Cook Islands Flycatcher) · P. fluxa (Eiao Monarch) · P. iphis (Ua Huka Flycatcher) · P. iphis bogusii (Test Record Only) · P. mendozae (Marquesas Flycatcher) · P. mendozae mendozae (Marquesas Flycatcher) · P. mira (Ua Pou Monarch) · P. nigra (Society Islands Flycatcher) · P. nukuhivae (Nuku Hiva Monarch) · P. pomarea (Maupiti Monarch) · P. whitneyi (Fatu Hiva Flycatcher)

More Info

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Further Reading

• 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 63.
• Aves polynesiae: a catalogue of the birds of the Polynesian subregion / by Lionel K. Wiglesworth. Berlin: R. Friedlaender & Sohn, 1891. url , , , p. 19.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. url p. 434.
• Catalogue of the birds of the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean, in the collection of the British Museum / by George Robert Gray. London, 1859. url p. 19.
• Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 493.
• Extinct birds: an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times: that is, within the last six or seven hundred years: to which are added a few which st 1907 London: Hutchinson, 1907. url p. 13.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 439.
• Natural history. New York: American Museum of Natural History. url p. 496.
• Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1898-1984. url p. 156, p. 156.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 154.
• Proceedings of the International Ornithological Congress. [Canberra, etc.]Australian Academy of Science [etc.] url p. 210.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 323, p. 518.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 22 1882 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 323, p. 666.
• The history of the collections contained in the natural history departments of the British Museum. by R. Bowdler Sharpe. London, 1906. url p. 197.
• World Checklist of Threatened Birds Nature Conservancy Council url p. 197.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2006. Pomarea nigra. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2011. Pomarea nigra. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 4317
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-562388
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13529887
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 562388
• IUCN ID: 234813
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: B01L
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 10001

Footnotes

1. BirdLife International 2011. Pomarea nigra. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]

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